Todd L. Seidler, Ph.D.

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Todd Seidler is former department chair and currently the Coordinator of the graduate program in Sport Administration at the University of New Mexico. He received his Bachelor's degree in Physical Education from San Diego State University and taught and coached in high school. He then went on to graduate school and earned his Masters and Ph.D. in Sports Administration from the University of New Mexico. Prior to returning to U.N.M., Dr. Seidler spent six years as the coordinator of the graduate Sports Administration program at Wayne State University and two years as the coordinator of the undergraduate Sport Management Program at Guilford College in North Carolina. He is a past-president of the Sport and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) and served as the Executive Director of SRLA for ten years. Dr. Seidler's primary areas of interest include risk management and legal issues in sport and in planning and managing sports facilities. He is active as a consultant on risk management and facility safety for sport and recreation and frequently presents, publishes, and teaches classes such as Risk Management in Sport, Legal Aspects of Sport and Sport Facility Planning and Design.